The unchosen peace is pictured

17Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.

18If only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

19Your offspring would have been like the sand, and the descendants from your body like its grains; their name would not have been cut off or destroyed from before me.